Wordle.net: A Sarah Palin & Joe Biden Comparison

Over the past couple of days, I have been playing alot with wordle.net, the great tool that creates “word clouds” based on the number of times words are spoken in a particular passage of text. My post of the word cloud of Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech generated more traffic than my blog has ever seen. I also received many tremendous comments from teachers at my school. They were VERY excited to be introduced to such a tool. Here is a quote from one of the emails I received:

For the record …

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING RESOURCE EVER!   MY CLASSES LOVE IT!
I’ve already shown it to some of my students and they started using it in class today to create backdrops for a musical project that we’re working on!  They were definitely very excited by what the site could create.

In about 10 minutes, I was able to incorporate a project using the site into one of my future units on characterization and text prioritization.

It’s ridiculously easy to use and has a myriad of possibilities for classes, projects, and “fun” stuff (one of my students is planning to type in her boyfriend’s favorite song and frame it for his birthday and another student is going to make her own scrapbook paper)!

Check it out!

She continued:

This is my semester without a planning period and two of my seniors came in to ask me more about the program during my lunch.

We played with it for the entire lunch and probably could have played for another few hours.  It becomes very addicting once you get started!

I have already taken four monologues that we use to study dramatic form and entered them into the program and saved them.

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